Halfdan E (Halfdan E Nielsen, born November 21, 1965) is a Danish

film composer A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to ...

. His work has won two Danish Grammy Awards and three Danish

Robert Award The Robert Award () is a Danish film prize awarded each year by the Danish Film Academy since 1984. Description The Robert-Prisen (Robert Award) is an annual award given by the Danish Film Academy, launched in 1984. It is the Danish equivalent ...

s. His music for the television series '' Borgen'' has also won the 2011 FIPA prize.

Biography

Halfdan E was born in

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. After stints as a session

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player in many different

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bands in the 1980s and early 1990s, followed by a degree from the Academy of Music in Copenhagen, Halfdan E collaborated with Danish poet

Dan Turèll Dan Turèll (March 19, 1946 – October 15, 1993), affectionately nicknamed " Danny" (English: ''Uncle Danny''), was a popular Danish writer with notable influence on Danish literature. His work crossed a number of genres including autobiography ...

on the crossover project "Pas På Pengene", resulting in two CD recordings, which both won Danish Grammy awards. He continued to compose for film and television, working with

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

s such as

Per Fly Per Fly Plejdrup (born 14 January 1960) is a Danish film director, generally credited simply as Per Fly. He has made many films and television shows broadcast on Danish television. Per Fly's awards includes the Crown Prince Couple's Culture Prize ...

and

Hans Petter Moland Hans Petter Moland (born 17 October 1955) is a Norwegian film director. Career Moland was born in Oslo. He had received awards for his commercials at major festivals, including Cannes, before he made his feature debut in 1993 with ''The Last Lieu ...

, and to work as a pop and rock producer. He wrote the score for Per Fly's TV-series ''Forestillinger''. Halfdan E has been awarded three Danish

Robert Awards The Robert Award () is a Danish film prize awarded each year by the Danish Film Academy since 1984. Description The Robert-Prisen (Robert Award) is an annual award given by the Danish Film Academy, launched in 1984. It is the Danish equivalent ...

out of five nominations. In 2012, he composed a new four-tone notification sound for the

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Danish state railway, replacing the three-tone sound composed by

Niels Viggo Bentzon Niels Viggo Bentzon (24 August 1919 – 25 April 2000) was a Danish composer and pianist. Biography Bentzon was born and died in Copenhagen. He was the son of Viggo Bentzon (1861-1937), Rector of Copenhagen University and Karen Hartmann (188 ...

and used since the early 1980s.

Filmography

*''Seaside Hotel'' (TV Series; 2013-2022) *''Apple Tree Yard'' (2017) *'' Borgen'' (2010) *'' En ganske snill mann'' (2010) *''Lotto'' (2006) *''

Drabet ''Manslaughter'' () is a 2005 Danish drama film written and directed by Per Fly. The film stars Jesper Christensen, Beate Bille and Pernilla August as well as Fly's wife Charlotte Fich. ''Manslaughter'' won the Nordic Council Film Prize in 2005, ...

'' (2005) *''Popular Music ''(2004) *'' Arven ''(2003) *''Okay'' (2002) *''

Monas Verden ''Monas verden'' ( eng. ''Mona's World'') is a Danish film from 2001, directed by Jonas Elmer. The actors could work relatively freely of a script by Nikolaj Peyk. The story was first created by Jonas Elmer with Sidse Babett Knudsen, and given ...

'' (2001) *''The Bench'' (2000) *''Prop & Berta'' (2000)

References

External links

Official site
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Halfdan E Danish film score composers Living people 1965 births Composers from Copenhagen